![]() ![]() Also, once data is stolen like this, it may become a victim of further underworld data sales and similar schemes. ![]() A call to the bank might also be an exercise in futility, adding to the pain. Many users wouldn’t notice the difference, until later when they get their bank statement and notice fraudulent use of their funds. If a scammer set up a fake banking site and you were a victim of a DNS scam, when you went to visit your bank’s website to access your bank account information online, you would be redirected to the very real looking fake site. This has been a boon for setting up fake (but convincing) websites which encourage users to input personal/sensitive information. ![]() Break it for malicious reasons, and scammers can redirect traffic wherever they please instead of your original intended destination. When DNS breaks (for whatever reason), the whole Internet fabric starts to fall apart, which is why there’s such a level of concern. It touches almost every aspect of communication, from browsing the web, to email, IM, and a host of other technologies. By releasing a security add-on using encrypted communication to get your requests to and from the DNS server, the effort aims to protect the traffic from intermediary prying eyes and man-in-the-middle DNS redirection attacks, which may spirit you off to potentially malicious sites.ĭNS traffic is a traditional, well-known, unencrypted communication that directs users to websites using their text names rather than having to remember the IP of each site you visit. Now OpenDNS is proposing a last mile approach called DNSCrypt which intends to secure the problematic link between users’ devices and the Internet itself. Combined with anti-malware efforts at thwarting DNS changing via malicious registry/host file modification, it’s making a dent. Now OpenDNS is proposing a last mile approach called DNSCrypt which intends to secure the problematic link between users’ĭNSSEC has been making the headlines lately as a possible defense against nasty DNS redirection schemes on the server end. DNSSEC has been making the headlines lately as a possible defense against nasty DNS redirection schemes on the server end. ![]()
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